I suspect that the M1 GPU performs so well that it invalidates the need for GPUs for anyone who doesn’t really need a future Mac Pro with M1 blades. More power

I suspect that the M1 GPU performs so well that it invalidates the need for GPUs for anyone who doesn’t really need a future Mac Pro with M1 blades. More power efficient, compact, etc. I imagine they pointedly don’t care to enable the crypto mining market, so cutting off eGPU is a great way to invalidate their platform as a cost-efficient target for miners, while also ending their silicon driver/support contracts cleanly for non-Apple silicon.